Archives for June, 2008

The trip to Toronto was great. I met a lot of great people there and I think that I made a good impression on the members of the Biochemistry Department at the U of T. Since this was my first real job interview, I didn’t know exactly what to expect. In the end I decided…

Yesterday I had a great time visiting the biochemistry department at the University of Toronto. I met up with Lary Moran of Sandwalk who gave me a tour of the place. (We also got caught up in a huge discussion that culminated in a bet … I will disclose the details at a future date.)…

Well I won’t be doing much blogging in the coming weeks. Last Wednesday I found out that I will be giving a talk this Thursday at the University of Toronto. This news came to me while I was smack-dab in the middle of one of these huge experiments. Of course the experiment failed (but I…

From Andre at biocurious: Janet Iwasa has had an unusual scientific career. After finishing her PhD with Dyche Mullins at UCSF she started a postdoc in Jack Szostak’s lab at Harvard but not to do bench work or even simulations like her postdoc colleagues. Instead, Janet is a full time animator and graphic designer. Some…

With the sequencing of the human genome, the public at large has been told that biologists now have a full picture of how life works. This is far from the truth. In this series of posts I’ll try to outline what we don’t know – in other words gaps in our knowledge. Today we’ll look…

I must say that the animators omitted many details, such as the RNA polymerase’s c-terminal repeats, splicing, the assembly of an RNP, the workings of the nuclear pore complex, and the assembly of a translation initiation complex … but WOW! We need more of these videos!

I heard about the report on the the latest Science Mag Podcast. Some general notes: -NIH budget will see a 0% increase -NSF budget will see a 15% increase -There is a significant increase in funding to the Department of Energy (up 21%) -Support of research (basic and applied) would fall 0.3%. According to AAAS:…